I'm working on designing and building a Cyclotron which includes an RF oscillator sub-system. Since we're high school students and lack funds, we're building the system from scratch. I've done a significant amount of research on circuits and electronics, having started from little knowledge, and am still having trouble wrapping my head around RF oscillators and linear amplifiers.

The goal is to design and amplify a 5 MHz signal, that itself is very stable and has no bias, to around 300-400 watts. I've been looking into Clapp oscillators and using triodes to amplify.

I could really use any help or somebody to talk to who has experience in the field. Thank you!

I'm a high school student. And cyclotrons are widely built for a couple hundred dollars. There is such a thing as amateur science research. All I'm asking is how to amplify a RF signal with triodes at this point.